| advent | (noun) arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous) | Synonyms: coming |
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| adventitia | (noun) an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue | Synonyms: tunic, tunica |
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| adventitial | (adjective) of or pertaining to the adventitia | - |
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| adventitious | (adjective) associated by chance and not an integral part | - |
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| adventive | (adjective) not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized | - |
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| adventure | (noun) a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful) | Synonyms: dangerous undertaking, escapade, risky venture |
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| (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: hazard, jeopardize, stake, venture |
| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: chance, gamble, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| adventurer | (noun) a person who enjoys taking risks | Synonyms: venturer |
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| (noun) someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose) | Synonyms: explorer |
| adventuresome | (adjective) willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises | Synonyms: adventurous |
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| adventuress | (noun) a woman adventurer | - |
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| adventurism | (noun) recklessness in politics or foreign affairs | - |
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| adventuristic | (adjective) of or pertaining to adventurism | - |
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| adventurous | (adjective) willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises | Synonyms: adventuresome |
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| adventurousness | (noun) the trait of being adventurous | Synonyms: venturesomeness |
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| atrioventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: auriculoventricular |
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| auriculoventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: atrioventricular |
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| aventail | (noun) a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | Synonyms: camail, ventail |
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| aventurine | (noun) a translucent quartz spangled with bits of mica or other minerals | Synonyms: sunstone |
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| circumvent | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
| (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, hem in, surround |
| circumvention | (noun) the act of evading by going around | - |
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| contravention | (noun) coming into conflict with | Synonyms: dispute |
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| convent | (noun) a religious residence especially for nuns | - |
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| (noun) a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together | - |
| conventicle | (noun) a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers) | Synonyms: meetinghouse |
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| (noun) a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship | - |
| convention | (noun) the act of convening | Synonyms: convening |
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| (noun) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional | Synonyms: conventionalism, conventionality |
| (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: formula, normal, pattern, rule |
| (noun) (diplomacy) an international agreement | - |
| (noun) a large formal assembly | - |
| conventional | (adjective) following accepted customs and proprieties | - |
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| (adjective) unimaginative and conformist | - |
| (adjective) (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy | - |
| (adjective) rigidly formal or bound by convention | Synonyms: ceremonious |
| (adjective) represented in simplified or symbolic form | Synonyms: formal, schematic |
| (adjective) conforming with accepted standards | Synonyms: established |
| (adjective) in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past | - |
| conventionalisation | (noun) the act of conventionalizing; conforming to a conventional style | Synonyms: conventionalization |
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| conventionalise | (verb) make conventional or adapt to conventions | Synonyms: conventionalize |
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| conventionalised | (adjective) using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous | Synonyms: conventionalized, stylised, stylized |
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| conventionalism | (noun) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional | Synonyms: convention, conventionality |
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| conventionality | (noun) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional | Synonyms: convention, conventionalism |
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| (noun) unoriginality as a result of being too conventional | - |
| (noun) conformity with conventional thought and behavior | - |
| conventionalization | (noun) the act of conventionalizing; conforming to a conventional style | Synonyms: conventionalisation |
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| conventionalize | (verb) make conventional or adapt to conventions | Synonyms: conventionalise |
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| (verb) represent according to a conventional style | Synonyms: stylise, stylize |
| conventionalized | (adjective) using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous | Synonyms: conventionalised, stylised, stylized |
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| conventionally | (adverb) in a conventional manner | - |
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| conventioneer | (noun) someone who attends a convention | - |
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| conventual | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, monastic, monastical |
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| dissolvent | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent |
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| dorsoventral | (adjective) extending from the back to the belly | - |
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| dorsoventrally | (adverb) in a dorsoventral direction | - |
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| eleventh | (adjective) coming next after the tenth and just before the twelfth in position | Synonyms: 11th |
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| (noun) position 11 in a countable series of things | - |
| event | (noun) something that happens at a given place and time | - |
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| (noun) a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory | - |
| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, effect, issue, outcome, result, upshot |
| (noun) a special set of circumstances | Synonyms: case |
| eventful | (adjective) full of events or incidents | - |
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| (adjective) having important issues or results | Synonyms: consequential |
| eventide | (noun) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) | Synonyms: eve, even, evening |
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| eventration | (noun) protrusion of the intestine through the abdominal wall | - |
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| eventual | (adjective) expected to follow in the indefinite future from causes already operating | - |
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| eventuality | (noun) a possible event or occurrence or result | Synonyms: contingence, contingency |
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| eventually | (adverb) after an unspecified period of time or an especially long delay | Synonyms: finally |
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| eventuate | (verb) come out in the end | - |
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| fervent | (adjective) (archaic) extremely hot, burning, or glowing | Synonyms: fervid |
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| (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: ardent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
| fervently | (adverb) with passionate fervor | Synonyms: fervidly, fierily |
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| hyperventilate | (verb) breathe excessively hard and fast | - |
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| (verb) produce hyperventilation in | - |
| hyperventilation | (noun) an increased depth and rate of breathing greater than demanded by the body needs; can cause dizziness and tingling of the fingers and toes and chest pain if continued | - |
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| insolvent | (adjective) unable to meet or discharge financial obligations | - |
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| (noun) someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts | Synonyms: bankrupt |
| intervention | (noun) the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.) | Synonyms: intercession |
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| (noun) (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings | - |
| (noun) care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) | Synonyms: treatment |
| (noun) the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others | Synonyms: interposition |
| (noun) a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries | Synonyms: interference |
| intraventricular | (adjective) within the system of ventricles in the brain | - |
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| invent | (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, excogitate, forge, formulate |
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| (verb) concoct something artificial or untrue | Synonyms: cook up, fabricate, make up, manufacture |
| invention | (noun) the act of inventing | - |
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| (noun) a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation | Synonyms: innovation |
| (noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: conception, design, excogitation, innovation |
| inventive | (adjective) (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action | Synonyms: imaginative |
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| inventively | (adverb) in an inventive manner | - |
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| inventiveness | (noun) the power of creative imagination | Synonyms: cleverness, ingeniousness, ingenuity |
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| inventor | (noun) someone who is the first to think of or make something | Synonyms: artificer, discoverer |
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| inventory | (noun) making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand | Synonyms: inventorying, stock-taking, stocktaking |
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| (noun) the merchandise that a shop has on hand | Synonyms: stock |
| (noun) a collection of resources | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
| (noun) a detailed list of all the items in stock | Synonyms: stock list |
| (noun) (accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods | - |
| (verb) make or include in an itemized record or report | Synonyms: stock-take, take stock |
| inventorying | (noun) making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand | Synonyms: inventory, stock-taking, stocktaking |
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| misadventure | (noun) an instance of misfortune | Synonyms: mischance, mishap |
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| nonevent | (noun) an anticipated event that turns out to be far less significant than was expected | - |
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| nonintervention | (noun) a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes | Synonyms: noninterference |
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| peradventure | (noun) doubt or uncertainty as to whether something is the case | - |
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| (adverb) by chance | Synonyms: maybe, mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly |
| prevent | (verb) stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state | Synonyms: keep |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude |
| preventable | (adjective) capable of being prevented | - |
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| preventative | (adjective) tending to prevent or hinder | Synonyms: preventive |
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| (adjective) preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease | Synonyms: preventive, prophylactic |
| (noun) remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease | Synonyms: preventive, prophylactic |
| (noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive, contraceptive device, preventive, prophylactic device |
| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventive |
| prevention | (noun) the act of preventing | Synonyms: bar |
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| preventive | (adjective) tending to prevent or hinder | Synonyms: preventative |
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| (adjective) preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease | Synonyms: preventative, prophylactic |
| (noun) remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease | Synonyms: preventative, prophylactic |
| (noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive, contraceptive device, preventative, prophylactic device |
| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative |
| preventiveness | (noun) The property of preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to something. | - |
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| reinvent | (verb) create anew and make over | - |
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| (verb) bring back into existence | - |
| resolvent | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, solvent |
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| seventeen | (adjective) being one more than sixteen | Synonyms: 17, xvii |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one | Synonyms: 17, XVII |
| seventeenth | (adjective) coming next after the sixteenth in position | Synonyms: 17th |
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| (noun) position 17 in a countable series of things | - |
| seventh | (adjective) coming next after the sixth and just before the eighth in position | Synonyms: 7th |
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| (noun) the musical interval between one note and another seven notes away from it | - |
| (noun) one part in seven equal parts | Synonyms: one-seventh |
| (noun) position seven in a countable series of things | - |
| seventhly | (adverb) in the seventh place | - |
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| seventies | (noun) the time of life between 70 and 80 | Synonyms: mid-seventies |
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| (noun) the decade from 1970 to 1979 | Synonyms: 1970s |
| seventieth | (adjective) the ordinal number of seventy in counting order | Synonyms: 70th |
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| (noun) position 70 in a countable series of things | - |
| seventy | (adjective) being ten more than sixty | Synonyms: 70, lxx |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven | Synonyms: 70, LXX |
| solvent | (adjective) capable of meeting financial obligations | - |
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| (noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | Synonyms: answer, resolution, result, solution |
| (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent |
| subvent | (verb) guarantee financial support of | Synonyms: subvention, underwrite |
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| subvention | (noun) the act or process of providing aid or help of any sort | - |
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| (noun) grant of financial aid as from a government to an educational institution | - |
| (verb) guarantee financial support of | Synonyms: subvent, underwrite |
| supervention | (noun) a following on in addition | - |
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| unadventurous | (adjective) lacking in boldness | - |
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| unconventional | (adjective) not conforming to accepted rules or standards | - |
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| (adjective) not conventional or conformist | - |
| (adjective) not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention | Synonyms: improper, unlawful |
| unconventionality | (noun) unorthodoxy by virtue of being unconventional | - |
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| (noun) originality by virtue of being unconventional | - |
| unconventionally | (adverb) in an unconventional manner | - |
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| uneventful | (adjective) marked by no noteworthy or significant events | - |
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| uneventfully | (adverb) in an uneventful manner | - |
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| uninventive | (adjective) deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention | Synonyms: sterile, unimaginative, uninspired |
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| unpreventable | (adjective) not preventable | - |
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| unvented | (adjective) not provided with vents | - |
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| unventilated | (adjective) not ventilated | - |
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| vent | (noun) activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion | Synonyms: outlet, release |
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| (noun) external opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate | - |
| (noun) a hole for the escape of gas or air | Synonyms: blowhole, vent-hole, venthole |
| (noun) a slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket) | - |
| (noun) a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt | Synonyms: volcano |
| (verb) expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen | Synonyms: air, air out, ventilate |
| (verb) give expression or utterance to | Synonyms: give vent, ventilate |
| ventail | (noun) a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | Synonyms: aventail, camail |
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| vented | (adjective) supplied with a vent or vents for intake of air or discharge of gases | - |
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| venter | (noun) the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis | Synonyms: abdomen, belly, stomach |
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| (noun) a bulging body part (as the belly of a muscle) | - |
| (noun) the womb | - |
| (noun) a speaker who expresses or gives vent to a personal opinion or grievance | - |
| venthole | (noun) a hole for the escape of gas or air | Synonyms: blowhole, vent-hole, vent |
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